The Land of the Boxers: Or, China Under the AlliesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 307 páginas |
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... Narrow lanes , low houses , ill - kept thorough- fares , gaudiness and dirt intermingled , stench and filth abominable . To it , however , was wont to go the seeker after curiosities , choice silks , or rich furs from Manchuria and ...
... Narrow lanes , low houses , ill - kept thorough- fares , gaudiness and dirt intermingled , stench and filth abominable . To it , however , was wont to go the seeker after curiosities , choice silks , or rich furs from Manchuria and ...
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... narrow lane surrounded by houses shattered by shells during the siege . Close by were the messes of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry in dark and gloomy Chinese buildings . We In the afternoon we paid our first ...
... narrow lane surrounded by houses shattered by shells during the siege . Close by were the messes of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry in dark and gloomy Chinese buildings . We In the afternoon we paid our first ...
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... narrow river , shells rained on the unprotected town , and its streets were swept by close - range rifle fire . All national rivalries forgotten , Americans , Russians , British , French , Germans , and Japanese fought shoulder to ...
... narrow river , shells rained on the unprotected town , and its streets were swept by close - range rifle fire . All national rivalries forgotten , Americans , Russians , British , French , Germans , and Japanese fought shoulder to ...
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... narrow roads . Their know- ledge of horse - mastership was not impressive , their animals always looking badly kept and ill - fed . The first German troops despatched to China were curiously clothed . Their uniform consisted of ill ...
... narrow roads . Their know- ledge of horse - mastership was not impressive , their animals always looking badly kept and ill - fed . The first German troops despatched to China were curiously clothed . Their uniform consisted of ill ...
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... narrow and always unsavoury , being used as the dumping - ground of all the filth and refuse of the neighbouring houses . The main streets even are unpaved and ill - kept . The centre portion alone is occasionally repaired in a slovenly ...
... narrow and always unsavoury , being used as the dumping - ground of all the filth and refuse of the neighbouring houses . The main streets even are unpaved and ill - kept . The centre portion alone is occasionally repaired in a slovenly ...
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Allies ANDREW LANG army Bombay British officers buildings Canton Chinaman Chinese city Chinese houses close cloth CO.'S STANDARD colony Coloured Plates coolies crowded Crown 8vo Edition England English Essays European fighting fire force foreign French Frontispiece Froude's J. A. garrison gate German Gifford Lectures gilt edges gilt top ground guard guns Gurkhas Haggard's H. R. half-bound harbour hills HISTORY Hong Kong Illus Illustrations Imperial Indian Infantry island Japanese Kowloon land Legation LL.D LONGMANS & CO.'S M.A. Crown 8vo Macao mainland mandarins Maps Max Müller MESSRS miles nation North China palace passed pavilion Pekin Photogravure Portraits Portuguese Punjaub quarters railway regiment rickshas rifles river road Royal Royal Welch Fusiliers Russian Samchun sampans sepoys Shanhaikwan side Sikh soldiers station steamers stood streets Taku temple Text Tientsin tions towers town trations troops villages vols wall Wei-hai-wei
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